William was born about 1423, the son of William ap Thomas and Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam. The place is not known.
He died on 27 JUL 1469. The place is not known.
He had two marriages/partners. His first wife was Anne Devereux, who he married in AFT 1445. The place has not been found. They had no known children.
His second wife was Frond Hotchkiss / verch Hoesgyn. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their two known children were George (c1462-?) and William (1468-1524).
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| Death | 27 JUL 1469 |
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!Stylename: Herbert, Sir William, 1st Earl of Pembroke, “Black William” [~1423 - 27 Jul 1469]
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William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke Citation_note MP
Gender: Male Citation_note
Birth: 1423
Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales [United Kingdom]
Death: July 27, 1469 [45-46]
Banbury, Northamptonshire, England [United Kingdom] [beheaded]
Place of Burial: Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire, Wales
Immediate Family:
Son of Sir William ap Thomas, The Blue Knight of Gwent and Gwladus Ddu ferch Dafydd Gam
Husband of Anne Devereux, Countess of Pembroke
Partner of Frond verch Hoesgyn; Mawd Turberville and N.N. Boys
Father of Sir William Herbert, of Troy; Philip Herbert; Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas; John Herbert, of Monmouth; Thomas Herbert Gloff, of Llandeilo Gresynni and 12 others
Brother of Elsbeth ferch William; Margred Herbert; Sir Richard Herbert, of Coldbrook; Elsbeth verch William; Jonet Herbert and 2 others
Half brother of Thomas Vaughan of Hergest; Elizabeth [1] Vaughan; Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower, Kt.; Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine; Elizabeth [2] ferch Sir Roger Vaughan and 6 others Citation_note
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William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke KG [c. 1423 – 27 July 1469], known as "Black William", was a Welsh nobleman, soldier, politician, and courtier.[1]
Life
He was the son of William ap Thomas, founder of Raglan Castle, and Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, and grandson of Dafydd Gam, an adherent of King Henry V of England. His father had been an ally of Richard of York, and Herbert supported the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses. In 1461 Herbert was rewarded by King Edward IV with the title Baron Herbert of Raglan [having assumed an English-style surname in place of the Welsh patronymic], and was invested as a Knight of the Garter.
Soon after the decisive Yorkist victory at the Battle of Towton in 1461, Herbert replaced Jasper Tudor as Earl of Pembroke which gave him control of Pembroke Castle – and with it, he gained the wardship of young Henry Tudor. However, he fell out with Lord Warwick "the Kingmaker" in 1469, when Warwick turned against the King. Herbert was denounced by Warwick and the Duke of Clarence as one of the king's "evil advisers".[2] William and his brother Richard were executed by Warwick in Northampton, after the Battle of Edgcote, which took place in South Northamptonshire, near Banbury.[3]
Herbert was succeeded by his son, William, but the earldom was surrendered in 1479. It was later revived for a grandson, another William Herbert, the son of Black William's illegitimate son, Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas.
Marriage and children
He married Anne Devereux, daughter of Walter Devereux, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Elizabeth Merbury. They had at least ten children:
William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke [5 March 1451 – 16 July 1491].
Sir Walter Herbert.[citation needed] [c. 1452 – 16 September 1507] Married Lady Anne Stafford, sister to the Duke of Buckingham.
Sir George Herbert of St. Julians.
Philip Herbert of Lanyhangel.
Cecilie Herbert.
Maud Herbert. Married Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.
Katherine Herbert. Married George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Anne Herbert. Married John Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Powis, 9th Lord of Powys [died 1497].
Isabel Herbert. Married Sir Thomas Cokesey.
Margaret Herbert. Married first Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, and secondly Sir Henry Bodrugan.
William had three illegitimate sons but the identities of their mothers are unconfirmed:
Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas. Father of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke [of the 10th creation]. Probably son of Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt [Gwynn].
Sir George Herbert. The son of Frond verch Hoesgyn. Married Sybil Croft.[4][unreliable source]
Sir William Herbert of Troye. Son of Frond verch Hoesgyn. Married, secondly, Blanche Whitney [née Milborne]. They had two sons.[5]
See also
The White Queen [miniseries]
References
Griffiths, R.A. [2004]. "Herbert, William, first earl of Pembroke [c. 1423–1469]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [online ed.]. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13053. [Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.]
Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. [1945]. The Complete Peerage. Vol. 10 [2nd ed.]. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 401 n. 'g'.
The Battle of Edgecote or Banbury [1469] Through the Eyes of Contemporary Welsh Poets, Barry Lewis, Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume IX, ed. Anne Curry, Adrian R. Bell, [Boydell Press, 2011], 101.
"Sir George Herbert". tudorplace.com.
"Ruth E. Richardson,'Mistress Blanche, Queen Elizabeth I's Confidante'"
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Family of Queen Katherine Parr: Anne Devereux, Countess of Pembroke
Posted on January 19, 2015
Lady Anne Devereux, Countess of Pembroke
© Meg McGath 24 January 2015
— Family
Anne was the daughter of Sir Walter Devereux, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and his wife Elizabeth Merbury.[1] Lord Devereux and his son-in-law, Lord Herbert, were responsible for the capture of Sir Edmund Tudor [father to the future King Henry VII]. Tudor was a half-brother to the Lancastrian King Henry VI by his mother’s second marriage to Owen Tudor.
Anne had two siblings, Walter and John. Walter was knighted after the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461 by the Yorkist King Edward IV. By right of his wife, the heiress Lady Anne, 7th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley, he was raised to Baron Ferrers of Chartley on 26 July 1461. Lord Walter held various positions during the ruling of the House of York [Kings Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III] but was ultimately killed in the last battle of the War of the Roses, the Battle of Bosworth 22 August 1485. He was succeeded by his son and heir, John, who became the 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. The 8th Baron would marry Lady Cecily Bourchier [her paternal grandparents were both descendants of King Edward III. Cecily was also a niece of queen consort Elizabeth Woodville by Cecily’s mother, Anne]. The couple were 2nd great-grandparents to Sir Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex who was a favorite of Queen Regnant Elizabeth I [daughter of King Henry VIII of the House of Tudor].[8][9][10]
— The Crophull Inheritance
Anne’s grandfather, Walter, was the son of Agnes Crophull. By Crophull’s second marriage to Sir John Parr, Anne was a cousin to the Parr family which included Sir Thomas Parr; father of King Henry VIII’s last queen consort, Katherine Parr.[2][3][4]
Anne’s great-grandmother was a great heiress of her father. She was married firstly to Sir Walter Devereux [died 1402] while she was still underage. Upon Agnes’s coming of age in September 1385, Devereux seized the remaining estates based on his marriage right in 1386.[7] These included Weobley manor [Herefordshire]; Sutton Bonnington manor and lands at Arnold [Nottinghamshire]; the manors of Cotesbach, Braunston, and Hemington [Leicestershire]; and an estate at Market Rasen [Lincolnshire]. Weobley would become his principal residence.
When Agnes Crophull died on 9 Feb 1436, Crophull’s heir was Anne Devereux’s father, Sir Walter Devereux [grandson of Crophull]. Estates like Lyonshall passed to Walter from Agnes, and also by right of his wife, Elizabeth Merbury, who was the daughter [step-daughter of Agnes] of Agnes Crophull’s third husband, John Merbury, by a previous marriage. Merbury and Agnes were buried together in Weobley’s Parish of St. Peter and St. Paul. Anne’s great-grandfather, Walter [first husband to Agnes Crophull], is also supposedly buried there in a separate tomb. Through her father, Anne was a descendant of King Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine by their children John, King of England and Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile.[1]
— Marriage
About 1445, Anne married Sir William Herbert, [later 1st Earl of Pembroke], in Herefordshire, England. He was the second son of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan, a member of the Welsh Gentry Family, and his second wife Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam.[1]
Sir William Herbert was a very ambitious man. During the War of the Roses, Wales heavily supported the Lancastrian cause. Jasper Tudor, 1st Earl of Pembroke and other Lancastrians remained in control of fortresses at Pembroke, Harlech, Carreg Cennen, and Denbigh. On 8 May 1461, as a loyal supporter of King Edward IV, Herbert was appointed Life Chamberlain of South Wales and steward of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. King Edward’s appointment signaled his intention to make replace Jasper Tudor with Herbert who would become the premier nobleman in Wales. Herbert was created Lord Herbert on 26 July 1461. Herbert was then ordered to seize the county and title of Earl of Pembroke from Jasper Tudor. On 29 March 1461, Lord Herbert became the 1st Earl of Pembroke. By the end of August, Herbert had taken back control of Wales with the well fortified Pembroke Castle capitulating on 30 September 1461. With this victory for the House of York came the inmate at Pembroke; the five year old nephew of Jasper Tudor, Henry, Earl of Richmond. Determined to enhance his power and arrange good marriages for his daughters, in March 1462 he paid 1,000 for the wardship of Henry Tudor. Herbert planned a marriage between Tudor and his eldest daughter, Maud. At the same time, Herbert secured the young Henry Percy who had just inherited the title of Earl of Northumberland. Herbert’s court at Raglan Castle was where young Henry Tudor would spend his childhood, under the supervision of Herbert’s wife, Anne Devereux. While at Raglan Castle, Anne must have understood the importance of the potential marriage between her daughter and Henry Tudor. Therefore, Anne insured that young Henry was well cared for.[5]
In the Battle of Edgecote on 26 July 1469, the Yorkists, led by Pembroke, were defeated by the Lancastrians. The Lancastrians were lead by Sir Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick; the man who helped Edward, Earl of March become King Edward IV.[a] Warwick had decided to fight against his cousin Edward and restored the Lancastrian King Henry VI for a few years while Edward went into exile. After the battle, the Earl of Pembroke and his brother Richard were executed near Banbury by the Lancastrians. Henry Tudor was lead from the battlefield to the home of Pembroke’s brother-in-law, Lord Ferrers, at Weobley in Herefordshire. It was there that Sir Reginald Bray, a servant of Henry Tudor’s mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, found Tudor six days after the battle. Anne, now Dowager Countess of Pembroke, was found sheltered by Lord Ferrers where she continued to look after Henry Tudor.[5]
— Issue
The Earl and Countess of Pembroke had three sons and seven daughters:[1]
- Sir William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Huntingdon[1], married firstly to Mary Woodville; daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and thus sister to King Edward IV’s queen consort Elizabeth Woodville. He married secondly to Lady Katherine Plantagenet, the illegitimate daughter of King Richard III.[1] [b]
- Sir Walter Herbert[1]
- Sir George Herbert[1]
- Lady Maud Herbert, wife of Sir Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, 7th Lord Percy.[1]
- Lady Katherine Herbert, wife of Sir George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.[1]
- Lady Anne Herbert, wife of Sir John Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Powis.[1]
- Lady Margaret Herbert, wife of Sir Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, and of Sir Walter Bodrugan.[1]
- Lady Cecily Herbert, wife of John Greystoke.[1]
- Lady Elizabeth Herbert, wife of Sir Thomas Cokesey.[1]
- Lady Crisli Herbert, wife of Mr. Cornwall.[1]
- Sadly, the earldom did not pass down through his son, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke. The 2nd Earl’s only child by Mary Woodville was a daughter, Lady Elizabeth Herbert. Lady Elizabeth became Baroness Herbert in her own right. As a woman, Lady Herbert could not inherit the Earldom of Pembroke. She did receive extensive lands in Wales.[c]
The Earl of Pembroke also fathered several children by various mistresses.[1]
- Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas, Herefordshire was the illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and most likely Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt [Gwynn]. Their son, William, would be created Earl of Pembroke [of the tenth creation] on 11 October 1551 by King Edward VI [son of King Henry VIII]. This brought the Earldom back into the Herbert family where it remains to this day. Pembroke was lucky enough to marry to Anne Parr.[d]
- Sir George Herbert. The son of Frond verch Hoesgyn. Married Sybil Croft.[2]
- Sir William Herbert of Troye. Son of Frond verch Hoesgyn. Married, second, Blanche Whitney [née Milborne] see Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy. They had two sons.[6]
After the death of her husband, the Dowager Countess was recorded as still living after 25 June 1486. She most likely died soon after.
— Notes
[a] Lord Warwick was the son of Sir Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Lady Alice, Countess of Salisbury [in her own right]. Salisbury and his siblings by Lady Joan Beaufort was a grandson of Prince John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Titular King of Castile [son of King Edward III]. One of Salisbury’s siblings was none other then Lady Cecily [Duchess of York] who would marry to the Yorkist rival, Richard, 3rd Duke of York. The couple were parents to both Kings Edward IV and Richard III. Lord Warwick’s siblings included Lady Alice FitzHugh [born Neville] who was mother to Lady Elizabeth Parr; the second husband of Sir William Parr, Baron Parr of Kendal. The two were grandparents to queen consort of Henry VIII [great-grandson of the Duke and Duchess of York], Katherine Parr.
[b] Lady Herbert married to Lord Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester, a legitimized son of Lord Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Worcester. The 3rd Duke was a son of Lord Edmund, 2nd Duke and Lady Elizabeth Beauchamp. Both parents had royal and noble descent. The 2nd Duke was from the legitimized line, the Beauforts, who were children of Prince John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. Elizabeth Beauchamp was the daughter of the 13th Earl of Warwick who was the father of Lady Anne Beauchamp who became the 16th Countess of Warwick in her own right after the death of her brother. Her title was inherited by her husband, the infamous “Warwick, the Kingmaker” [Sir Richard Neville,16th Earl of Warwick].
[c] In 1479, the Earldom was bestowed upon Prince Edward of York, later King Edward V [Plantagenet]. When the King went missing after being lodged in The Tower of London, the Earldom merged into the crown. It was restored under the new King, Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII of England. An interesting turn of events was in 1532. Henry VII’s son, Henry VIII decided to grant the title to Anne Boleyn as ‘Marquess of Pembroke’ two months before their marriage to elevate her status. Anne Boleyn had been lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII’s first wife, Queen Katherine of Aragon. A romance blossomed between the two despite her position as the daughter of a knight. They were eventually married under the “new religion” that made Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church of England. The Catholic Church never granted an annulment from his first marriage and never recognized the marriage of Henry and Anne. Anne was crowned queen and gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth [later queen]. After failing to produce a son, Anne had charges brought up against her that eventually led to her execution. Coincidentally, her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour, took Anne’s place as the next wife and queen consort. Queen Jane did give birth to a son, Edward [later King].
[d] Herbert married to Anne Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas [a courtier and favorite of King Henry VIII] and Lady Maud Parr [Green]. At the time, it was a step up for Herbert as Anne was descended from a great lineage. It has been said, that because of his marriage to Anne, it brought some legitimacy to the Herbert family. In 1543, Herbert’s sister-in-law, the Dowager Lady Katherine Latimer [widow of Sir John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer of Snape], would become the sixth and final queen consort to King Henry VIII. Both Lord and Lady Herbert were present at the ceremony. The marriage only brought on more advancement for Herbert and his family. After the death of King Henry VIII in 1547, Herbert became one of the guardians of the young King Edward VI. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1549, and created Baron Herbert of Cardiff on 10 October 1551, and 1st Earl of Pembroke of the [tenth creation] the following day.
— References
Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd Edition, 2011. pg 249.
Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, pg 2.
Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, pg 297-298.
Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, pg 248.
Chris Skidmore. The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History, Macmillian, 14 January 2014. pg 47.
Ruth E. Richardson. Mistress Blanche: Queen Elizabeth I’s Confidante, Logaston Press. 1 November 2007.
Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II, Volume 3. H.C. Maxwell Lyte [editor]. 1921. pages 32 to 35, 27 September 1385, Westminster.
Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd Edition, 2011. pg 607-8.
Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd Edition, 2011. pg 45-6.
Charles Mosley [editor]. Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. Volume 1, pages1378-80
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14 Sir Roger ivanc. or vychan, both which words are used to imply "junior," was, as
Lewys Dwnn above says, " slain in Agincourt field," was made a Knight Banneret, with
his father-in-law, David Gam. Gwladys and her second husband. Sir William ap
Thomas, a widower, were both buried in the Priory Church at Abergavenny, where
their effigies still exist.
15 For a continuation of the descents from these two, see Walpole's Life of Lord
Herbert of Cherbury. Sir William, the eldest son, had, in 1461, a grant of the offices
of Chief Justice and Chamberlain of South Wales from Edward IV.; and was, on the
■lth of November, in the same year, created Baron Herbert of Gower. In 1462, he
had the grant of the Castle, Town, and Lordship of Pembroke ; in 1463, was constituted
Justice of Merioneth, in North Wales ; and in 1467, Chief Justice of North Wales
for life. On the 27th of May, 1468, he was advanced to the title of Earl of Pembroke,
and soon after a Knight of the Garter. He was taken prisoner at tho battle of Danes-
more, in 1469, and on the Wednesday, viz., two days after, according to Gutto'r Glyn,
was executed. Lewys Glyn Cothi addressed an Ode to him ; and as he, in November,
1463, accompanied Edward IV, on an expedition to the North, in order to reduce those
Castles which were possessed by Lancastrians, he commences, by asking, " How was it
that the dart of William was not broken in the assault upon Durham," which took
place in the next month ; and then exclaims, " May the lance of William break down
the strong wall of the city, and the five towers thereof." Ho congratulates all Wales
on having such a hero ; styles him a loverof truth, the protector of the weak, and the
terror of the Lancastrians ; the prosperity of Wales, and the dispenser of charity ; tells
us that he was a member of the Parliament, to which he was first sammoned in 1462,
and the son of the daughter of David Gam. He alludes to his deeds of valour in the
North, and speaks of his triumphing over the enemy from Dunster Castle, in Somerset-,
shire, which, on the attainder of Sir James Luttrel was bestowed upon him, to Aber
I[16] '■-■•■■. a village in Glamorganshire. He adds, that when mounted on his restless white
charger, his countenance was most animated, and his eyes sparkling like fire. He
alludes also to his improvement of Rhaglan Castle, which his father had acquired with
his first wife, Elizabeth Berkley. But ho records no one act so much to his credit as
his obtaining pardon for David ab Einion, on his surrender, who had so bravely defended
Harlech Castle, in Merionethshire [Monmouthshire] ; for when Lord Herbert summoned him to surrender,
he made this memorable reply, — " I maintained a Castle in France so long, that all the
old women in Wales talked about me ; and I will keep this Castle of Harlech so long,
Note: David ap Einon 1420 is also related to Hotchkiss, and the families later appear to have becom staunch allies. Name also appears later as Benyon.